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Press release No. 104 of 15 March 2023 Egg production up 1.4% in 2022
In 2022, roughly 13.2 billion eggs were produced in Germany in holdings with at least 3,000 places for laying hens. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that production increased by 1.4% compared with the previous year.
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Press release No. 051 of 8 February 2023 Meat production down 8.1% in 2022
Meat production in Germany fell sharply in 2022. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that commercial slaughterhouses produced 7.0 million tonnes of meat in 2022, according to provisional results. This was a decline of 8.1% or 0.6 …
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Press release No. 557 of 21 December 2022 Pig population has dropped by 18.2% since 2020
On the reference date of 3 November 2022, 21.3 million pigs were kept in Germany, according to provisional results. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the number of pigs decreased by 1.01 million, or 4.5%, compared with the …
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Press release No. 332 of 5 August 2022 Meat production in 1st half of 2022 down 7.9% on a year earlier
Commercial slaughterhouses in Germany produced just under 3.5 million tonnes of meat in the first half of 2022, according to provisional results. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was a year-on-year decline of 7.9%. A total …
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Press release No. 266 of 27 June 2022 Smallest pig population since German reunification
On reference day 3 May 2022, 22.3 million pigs were kept in Germany, according to provisional results. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was the smallest pig population since German reunification in 1990. At the time, …
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Press release No. 234 of 8 June 2022 0.2% of the pigs for fattening slaughtered in 2021 were unfit for consumption
In 2021, 114,500 of the roughly 50.4 million pigs for fattening that were slaughtered in German slaughterhouses were unfit for human consumption, according to official meat inspection. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this …
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Press release No. 111 of 15 March 2022 Egg production in 2021: one in eight eggs came from organic farms
In 2021, roughly 13.0 billion eggs were produced in enterprises in Germany which had at least 3,000 places for laying hens. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was a year-on-year increase of 0.8%.
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Press release No. 050 of 7 February 2022 Meat production down 2.4% in 2021 on the previous year
Commercial slaughterhouses in Germany produced 7.6 million tonnes of meat in 2021, according to provisional results. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that this was a decline of 2.4% on the preceding year. Meat production has …
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Press release No. 596 of 22 December 2021 Smallest pig population in Germany in 25 years
On the reference date of 3 November 2021, 23.6 million pigs were kept in Germany according to provisional results. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was the smallest pig population since 1996. Compared with the …
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Press release No. 388 of 16 August 2021 Meat production in 1st half of 2021: 1.7% down on a year earlier
In the first half of 2021, 28.3 million pigs, cattle, sheep, goats and horses were slaughtered in commercial slaughterhouses in Germany, according to provisional results. The enterprises produced just under 3.8 million tonnes of meat from the …
